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Word: sown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ruhr The little seed of peace, given by Herr Hugo Stinnes to Premier Mussolini in Italy nearly a month ago, sown by Mussolini and Jaspar in a subsequent conference at Milan, and watered with assiduous care by M. Loucheur, unofficial diplomat of French industry, and Premier Theunis of Belgium, has at length pushed its first leaves through the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Governments, Weakened at Home, Tend Toward Peace | 4/28/1923 | See Source »

...game were absolutely right now there would be no need for any change; if the disgrace of losing a game were understood to be no disgrace at all, much that is now wrong would automatically right itself. The thing of importance is to play the game for it sown sake; many game such as tennis are played very largely for the purpose of enjoyment. And just so far as any sportsman begins to feel that he must win, will the game lose some of its enjoyment; and just so far will he become less of a sportsman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "WE BIG TO DIFFER" | 3/27/1922 | See Source »

...colony can live, love, and prosper without interference and with reasonable good fortune for any length of time, it should be an immense factor for good. The results will not be startling, or even immediately observable, but they should be both real and salutary. Once a seed is sown and given a good start it can look out for itself if it be from a sturdy plant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LANDED EDUCATOR | 3/6/1922 | See Source »

...known, the red agitators are bending every effort to win Illinois and Minnesota, which would give them an unbroken stronghold through the center of the middle-west. Although Chicago's mayor is not admittedly pro-Bolshevic, but only pro-Thompson, many of his utterances, calculated to win votes, have sown broadcast the seed of labor dissension...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHICAGO'S PLIGHT | 10/1/1920 | See Source »

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